In a recent study,botanists investigated the effects of increasing the amount of carbon dioxide channels in plant membranes, but could not detect any impact on photosynthesis in model tobacco plants.

C₄ leaves confine Rubisco to bundle sheath cells. Thus, the size of bundle sheath compartments and the total volume of chloroplasts within them limit the space available for Rubisco. Rubisco activity ...

The role of photosynthesis by reproductive structures during grain-filling has important implications for cereal breeding, but the methods for assessing the contribution by reproductive structures to ...

Before the debate over corporate vs. conservation-sponsored environmental education is presented in “Teach the children well” (HCN, 3/26/01: Teach the children well), a more fundamental problem should ...

For decades, scientists have been stumped by the signals plants send themselves to initiate photosynthesis, the process of turning sunlight into sugars. Researchers have now decoded those previously ...

The image shows a high-resolution 3D model of the plant RNA polymerase PEP, which plays a central role in photosynthesis. For life on Earth, it is essential that plants carry out photosynthesis and ...

Photosynthesis is the process that enables plants to take sunlight and carbon dioxide and convert it into chemical energy to grow. Crop plants, however, are only about 1% efficient at doing this, ...

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On Nov. 14, The Biology Colloquium, hosted by the University of Wisconsin Botany and Integrative Biology Departments, is a series of interactive lectures that cover a wide range of topics. In Birge ...

Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign To target CO 2 transfer across plant cell membranes, the team at ANU increased the amount of aquaporin proteins ...